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Rare Books
Browse our collection of rare books, antique books and first editions. Specialising in travel and discovery, including antiquarian books and works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.
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Precipitous prospectus for Lewis and Clark’s monumental work,… a whole seven years before it was finally published
LEWIS, Meriwether; and William CLARK
£2,500
A sea of stories
COMMIN, Vincent, probable translator
£24,000
To Abraham Ortelius, “the most brilliant and best of good friends”
BRAUN, G[eorg]
£30,000
Ortelius writes to his “most brilliant and dearest nephew”
ORTELIUS, Abra[ham]
£50,000
“all the knowledge and learning related to the East and West Indies” (Hill)
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
£125,000
“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” with both the Wright-Molyneux world map and the rare suppressed ‘Voyage to Cadiz’
HAKLUYT, Richard, and WRIGHT, Edward
£800,000
The first town plan of anywhere in the present-day United States
HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de; [Jacob Le MAIRE; Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN; Giovanni Battista BOAZIO]; et al.
£255,000
An album of engravings from the most famous natural history artists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, collected and bound for an English patron
WOUTNEEL, Hans; Crispin de PASSE, the elder and younger; and VISSCHER, Claez Jansz, after Jacob and Joris HOEFNAGEL, Assuerus van LONDERSEEL, Nicolaes de BRUYN, and Adrian COLLAERT
£75,000
The great costume book of pre-Commonwealth England
HOLLAR, Wenceslaus
£8,000
The fashion bible
HOLLAR, Wenceslaus
£3,000
Postmasters of the Empire…
CHIFFLET, Jules
£2,700
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
BLAEU, Willem
£4,000
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